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I'm replacing the master node in a cluster and having issues PXE booting the diskless nodes. The current master works fine, but the new node to replace the current node which has the same setup is having the issues. The hardware is: Dell r920 (new master node, UEFI) Dell r620's (diskless, BIOS) Dell 1950's (diskless, BIOS) When trying to boot, the 1950 node displays (though both

> /diskless/pxelinux.cfg/default > --- > DEFAULT /gentoo-x86_64/boot/kernel-3.14.14-gentoo > APPEND ip=dhcp ro rootfstype=nfs root=/dev/nfs > nfsroot=10.0.0.11:/diskless/gentoo-x86_64 > init=/linuxrc That pxelinux.cfg/default seems "tolerable" for older versions, but not for Syslinux 5+. Is this an inadequate copy of the actual content? Or is it really a

I have several machines, same hardware and config, but one tiny little change.. the hostname. Each one of these diskless machines needs its own hostname. Presently my pxelinux.cfg is setup like: prompt 1 default Gentoo timeout 10 label Gentoo kernel boot/kernel-3.16.5-gentoo APPEND root=/dev/nfs rw ip=dhcp nfsroot=192.168.1.10:/RAID/diskless/XXXXX-mythtv-0.27-fixes,tcp,rsize=131072

Does anyone have any good how-to's or documentation on setting up read only root NFS for pxe booting diskless computers? A few months ago I stumbled upon an official Redhat doc through a google search(not hosted by redhat and I cannot find it anywhere on the Redhat site) written by Dave Kline named "Configuring diskless clients with Red Hat Enterprise Linux" from 2011. It seemed to

Using the 2.0.6 demo cd image, I booted the supplied freebsd image and rsync''d the file system to an NFS server. However I don not seem to be able to succesfully boot from it the system just hangs here: xn0: bpf attached xn0: Ethernet address: aa:00:00:61:1c:d4 lo0: bpf I have modified /sbin/start_freebsd.sh and /etc/xen/freebsd.py to generate the following configuration: xendemo:~#

Hi, I've got another one... NFS error 101 with NFSROOT has been discussed a lot, and hpa gave an answer to it which appears right. It's ENETUNREACH, and I suspect my diskless box does not set its IP parameters right. PXElinux is set up as follows: label linvdr kernel kernel-linvdr append initrd=initrd-linvdr acpi=off root=/dev/nfs \

folks, Im finding that using a config like this: SERIAL 0 19200 #IPAPPEND 2 PROMPT 1 TIMEOUT 100 IMPLICIT 0 APPEND console=ttyS0,19200n81 root=/dev/nfs nfsaddrs=10.10.10.100:10.10.10.2:10.10.10.2:255.255.255.0:soekris:eth0 nfsroot=10.10.10.2:/nfshost/truck panic=15 LABEL deb268 KERNEL vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-386 initrd=initrd.img-2.6.8-1-386 panic=10 LABEL deb268-ram KERNEL vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-386

Hello all, I have observed a problem with a diskless PXE client I am attempting to configure. PXE/NFS/DHCP/TFTPd server is running CentOS5.1 and the Diskless workstation's root and kernel was extracted from a CentOS5.1 (custom kernel due to setting to enable Root File System support). Problem: When the diskless client boots and logs in I notice that my root user is being squashed, even if I

Because everything I searched on for a PXELinux mailing list pointed me to here. And because PXELinux is a derivative of SYSLinux. If there is a better mailing list for my questions, please let me know. Since you say its possible, care to enlighten me on how to do so? Marc From: Don Cupp [mailto:doncuppjr at yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 10:58 AM To: Marc Tousignant

I'm trying to boot RedHat 9.0 on a diskless PC from a head machine running Redhat 9.0. The network appears to be setup correctly. I can boot the installation disk image fine using pxelinux. What I am trying to setup is a number of different Linux systems each with its own root directory on the head machine. I am hoping that I don't have to modify the kernel for any of these systems.

Hello H. Peter, we use pxelinux to start linux on desktop pcs. Now we have a problem with the interaction of dhcp. If the ip address is not fix, we cannot use the ip address as name for the configfile. A better solution would be, first to check for the mac and then for the ip address. Is it possible? TIA, Tobias

Hi everyone, I got the error: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/smp for linux NET4.0 ds: no socket drivers loaded request_module[block-major-8]: root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device ""or 08:03 Please append a correct "root"boot option The strange thing is that it tries to mount from harddisk. This I got somewhere else: "the kernel looks like it is trying to

I've been having some real issues creating a working configuration file for my PXE Linux 2.03 installation from which I intend to boot diskless workstations. I've tried a huge number of differences for passing the init argument but none seem to work. Current config file should look something like this: ******** default std label std kernel linuz append root=/dev/nfs

Hi, I'm trying to deploy some non-linux OS via pxe and I was thinking to just launch CentOS in RAM and then run dd or qemu-img or something like this in order to complete the other OS install via template imaging. My first idea was to build a custom CentOS livecd and use that in combination with pxe kernel parameters, but perhaps there's a better way to do this. Ideas? Thanks, Lucian --

On a customer's machine running SuSE 9.2, the size of the occupied space on the harddisk is reported incorrectly by "df -h". After we noticed the problem, I rebooted the machine and had it checked by "e2fsck" (check forced with "tune2fs -C 40", we are not on location). Right after the reboot I proceeded as follows, but I could not find any information about

Sorry, hit send instead of attach again. Rest of patches included. -- Anthony Liguori Samba, Linux/Windows Interoperability Linux Technology Center (LTC) - IBM Austin E-mail: aliguori@us.ibm.com Phone: (512) 838-1208 Tie Line: 678-1208

I am having a problem with setting up diskless clients under CentOS 5.2. I have everything working under CentOS 4.7. This is an adaptation of the (somewhat old) Diskless Linux with PXE HOWTO by Gerd v. Egidy, originally at the URL http://www.intra2net.com/opensource/diskless-howto/, which is now defunt (there is a mirror of it at http://blog.chinaunix.net/u/2389/showart_82438.html). What I am

I am using the following simple menu and have noticed that items at the bottom are dropping off. I seem to be limited to 12 items. Is there a limit to how many items can be on the simple menu? default pxelinux.cfg/menu.c32 prompt 0 MENU TITLE UWSP PXE Boot Menu # TIMEOUT 200 LABEL bartpe MENU LABEL Build 12 KERNEL /STARTROM.0 APPEND keeppxe LABEL 11dnet MENU LABEL Build 11DNET beta

coding style fixes. FIXME: check that compiled bin the same1!! --- usr/kinit/initrd.c | 3 ++- usr/kinit/kinit.c | 12 ++++-------- usr/kinit/kinit.h | 20 ++++++++++---------- usr/kinit/name_to_dev.c | 6 +++--- usr/kinit/nfsroot.c | 5 ++--- 5 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/usr/kinit/initrd.c b/usr/kinit/initrd.c index

Hi all If I use nfsroot boot the xen dom0, I find it works well if not use initrd-2.6.32.9.img. what does "initrd-2.6.32.9.img" contains? Thanks Lei -- "We learn from failure, not from success!" _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users